Sunday, February 26, 2012

How to convert from Oracle Virtualbox virtual machines to VmwWare Fusion on Mac OS X

How to convert virtual machines from Oracle Virtualbox to VmwWare Fusion on Mac. I have tested succesful virtual machine export from Virtualbox to VmWare fusion with Centos 6 & Windows 7. Here are the instructions In Virtualbox first export your virtual machines as a ova files using the Export tool. The .ova files Virtualbox exports are standard UNIX tar balls. Open a Mac terminal windows. type $ tar xvf virtualmachine.ova you will now get a virtualmachine-disk1.vmdk Go ahead an uninstall Virtualbox and then install VmWare Fusion In VmWare Fusion, Choose New * Use an existing harddisk Point to virtualmachine-disk1.vmdk Pick the choice * Make a separate copy of the harddisk VmWare Fusion will prompt you that the harddisk was created with an earlier version of VmWare/Virtualbox and ask if you would like to convert the harddisk to the new film format? Choose Yes. You should now be at Use an existing virtual disk. Click Continue. Choose the operating system that the viretalbox virtual machine used. Click Finish! That is it.